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Jakin, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jakin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39861. The Survey maps it on the Donalsonville West quadrangle. 131 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 144 feet above sea level.

Jakin within Early County

On record in Jakin

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Jakin fell from 155 to 131 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010155
2020131-24 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Jakin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 528 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning144
Equipment and vehicle use72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking12
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-SEMINOLE-006
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-SEMINOLE-006
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SEMINOLE008
25 September 1999Debris and open burning7.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-SEMINOLE-006
23 September 1999Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2017Debris and open burning2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-EARLY-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Early County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jakin in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindJakin5 hurt, $50,000A severe thunderstorm uprooted several pecan trees just east of Jakin. A nearby storage building and barn were damaged. Several trees fell across King-Santi Road. A large tree fell over a pasture fence where several of the cows escaped and wandered onto U.S. Highway 84. Three vehicles traveling in the eastbound lane struck four cows. Two drivers and three passengers were injured and transported to a local hospital.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindJakin$5,000Several large tree limbs and power lines were downed from thunderstorm winds.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindJakin$2,000Windows were blown out of a home in Jakin.
March 1993HailJakin-Several large tree limbs and power lines were downed from thunderstorm winds.
March 2011HailJakin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Early County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Saffold3.4 miles8
Killarney3.9 miles9
Springfield (historical)4.3 miles9
Howards Mill4.6 miles9
Jones Crossroads6.2 miles9
Cedar Springs7.0 miles9
Liberty7.7 miles9
Lucile11.1 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on JakinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2274633The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 316032. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.